Ghost Riders in the Sky
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"Ghost Riders in the Sky" is a classic American cowboy-themed country and western song, famous for its haunting melody and vivid, supernatural imagery of ghostly riders chasing cattle across the sky.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ghost Riders in the Sky canonical | 2 |
| (Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend | 1 |
| ghost riders | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2547362 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ghost Riders in the Sky Context triple: [Sons of the Pioneers, notableWork, Ghost Riders in the Sky]
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A.
The Man from Painted Post
The Man from Painted Post is a 1917 American silent Western film starring Douglas Fairbanks as a cowboy who becomes entangled in romance and adventure.
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B.
The Galloping Ghost
The Galloping Ghost is a 1931 American film serial starring football legend Red Grange in an action-packed sports and crime story.
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C.
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
"Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" is a landmark 1973 outlaw country album by Waylon Jennings that helped define his rebellious, independent image in country music.
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D.
Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is one of The Allman Brothers Band’s signature Southern rock songs, known for its haunting melody, reflective lyrics, and enduring influence on rock and country music.
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E.
The Outlaw
The Outlaw is a 1943 Western film famous for its controversial sexual content and for helping launch the career of actress Jane Russell.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ghost Riders in the Sky Target entity description: "Ghost Riders in the Sky" is a classic American cowboy-themed country and western song, famous for its haunting melody and vivid, supernatural imagery of ghostly riders chasing cattle across the sky.
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A.
The Man from Painted Post
The Man from Painted Post is a 1917 American silent Western film starring Douglas Fairbanks as a cowboy who becomes entangled in romance and adventure.
-
B.
The Galloping Ghost
The Galloping Ghost is a 1931 American film serial starring football legend Red Grange in an action-packed sports and crime story.
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C.
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
"Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" is a landmark 1973 outlaw country album by Waylon Jennings that helped define his rebellious, independent image in country music.
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D.
Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is one of The Allman Brothers Band’s signature Southern rock songs, known for its haunting melody, reflective lyrics, and enduring influence on rock and country music.
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E.
The Outlaw
The Outlaw is a 1943 Western film famous for its controversial sexual content and for helping launch the career of actress Jane Russell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| composer | Stan Jones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| culturalStatus |
classic American cowboy song
ⓘ
country and western standard ⓘ |
| describes |
cattle herd in the sky
ⓘ
eternal chase ⓘ ghostly cowboys ⓘ stormy sky ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country and western ⓘ cowboy song ⓘ western ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
cowboy narrator
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Ghost Riders in the Sky self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ghost riders
old cowboy who warns the narrator ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
fiery-eyed cattle
ⓘ
ghost riders ⓘ warning from beyond ⓘ |
| hasPart |
haunting melody
ⓘ
narrative lyrics ⓘ supernatural imagery ⓘ |
| imageryType |
apocalyptic
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supernatural ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
country
ⓘ
western music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Stan Jones ⓘ |
| mood |
dramatic
ⓘ
haunting ⓘ ominous ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | ballad ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cowboy legend narrative
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haunting melody ⓘ vivid supernatural imagery ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Ghost Riders in the Sky
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend
|
| setting |
Old West
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surface form:
American West
|
| theme |
afterlife
ⓘ
cowboy folklore ⓘ supernatural ⓘ warning and moral lesson ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
electric guitar ⓘ voice ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ghost Riders in the Sky Description of subject: "Ghost Riders in the Sky" is a classic American cowboy-themed country and western song, famous for its haunting melody and vivid, supernatural imagery of ghostly riders chasing cattle across the sky.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend
this entity surface form:
ghost riders